In September, we are pleased to announce that Stéphane Malrait who is a Managing Director and Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation for Financial Markets at ING Bank joined the Quorum 15 Board as a Non Executive Director.

Stéphane is a long standing advocate of Q15 and has been a member of both our Fixed Income & FX quorums in London for over 10 years. He is also a well respected member of our FI & FX Advisory Boards and actively contributes to the agendas.

He has extensive knowledge within the industry and in his current role is responsible for following market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial market industry.

Stéphane joined ING in 2015 to lead the bank’s e-commerce initiatives across all financial market products and to develop the financial market group’s cross-asset e-commerce strategy. Before joining ING, Stéphane spent eight years at Société Générale, where he was Global Head of FIC e-commerce, creating an e-commerce business covering credit, rates, money market, emerging market and FX. Prior to this, Stéphane worked at JP Morgan Chase for ten years, serving in different roles in Global FX e-commerce Business Management and cross-asset e-commerce technology, based in London and New York.

Stéphane is also a board member for several Fintech market initiatives and trading associations. Since 2005 he has been active with the ACI Financial Market Association – an international non-profit organisation that represents the interests of market professionals in foreign exchange and money markets.

Stéphane joins Richard Semark (UBS) & Ian Cohen (HSBC GAM) who collectively provide independent guidance on Quorum 15’s strategy and performance.